I've been crafting civ ideas for years if anyone doesn't know, and I STILL feel incredibly separated from the community despite trying to help add some fun new ways to be considered for play.

In fact, I've remembered at times people telling me to stop posting concepts, so I'm hesitant to even mod.

Maybe, just maybe it's because you posted over 40 civ suggestions on reddit in a very short time span. Of course people tell you to stop, reddit is not a personal work space.

I'm sad that ideas are not considered innovation around here, not on reddit or AoKHeaven, or even the Steam page. Maybe there's just lots of horrible civ concepts that don't flow, such as Able's civ threads which are trash.

who are you to look down on other peoples civ concepts? You just admitted that many people don't consider your ideas 'innovation'. Maybe your concepts aren't as good as you think they are.